Mayoral Roundup

What a relief. This will soon be over! Election Day is Saturday and we'll know who the next mayor of Houston is by sometime that night after 7 PM. Here's a roundup of some recent voices on the internet about the mayor's race - some familiar, and some maybe not:

Hairballs (Houston Press) has a hilarious take on the latest gay-hating mailer in support of Locke, including how The Traditional Family is important to city priorities - The Traditional Family stops crime, reduces pollution, prevents flooding and improves traffic. Truly funny stuff and a must read!

A former Texas political reporter tells why he is supporting Annise Parker for mayor.

Pondering Penguin is a Republican and she tells why she voted for Annise Parker, including this reason: "Annise Parker is a woman of her word and listens to those with questions or comments. There is not a aura of arrogance nor is there condescension in her attitude as she answers questions."

Egberto Willies of "As I See It," supports Parker and says you should to: "Mostly, just as Mayor Bill White reduced the role of the good-old-boy network, Ms Parker is likely to continue reward competence and performance over personal relationships."

Genevieve Van Cleve asks, "What's the Frequency, Gene?"

A big blog not from Texas - Firedog Lake - comments on the mayor's race.

Nonsequiteuse has a humorous way of writing about the mayor's race, including this post about the diversity comparison between Locke's law firm and Parker's Controller staff, and then this one about when Gene dropped the puck at the hockey game, followed by this mea culpa.

Did you know that Annise Parker stumped for the green collar jobs vote? She did.

This Blog is Full of Crap is clearly not a Metro fan, and supports Parker's intention shake things up at Metro.

Brains and Eggs had this to say about the Locke campaign: "Imploding in a foul-smelling morass of lies, bigotry, and disgraceful conduct is no way to run for political office, people. You highly paid out-of-towners can now be dismissed to pack up and move on, and you locals need to line up to be deloused."

I have a google alert on Parker and Locke. I got all the above from those alerts. There is very, very little in the google alerts that is positive about Gene Locke, except for KPRC blogger Mary Benton who has just about all of the positive spin about Locke straight from his campaign. Other than that, unpaid, independent voices on the internet? Not so much good stuff to say about Gene.

You can find the blogateers - the progressive bloggers who have all publicly endorsed Annise Parker - at the usual places. Here's John, Erik, Stace and Kuff.